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Islamism and Iran's Islamic Period Museum
The Islamic Period Museum of Iran was established, almost 16 years after the Islamic Revolution, as an addition to the previous National Museum building - the Iran Bastan, or Ancient Iran Museum - in 1996. By examining the components of state Islamism, the space of the museum and key exhibits, this paper reveals the analogous relationship between the museum and state ideology. That relationship suggests that the museum embodies fundamental ambiguities and inconsistencies inherent in Iranian state Islamism. Those ambiguities and inconsistencies are only concealed, in the museum as in the ideology, by employing traditionalist rhetoric with regard to religion and identity.
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International journal of heritage studiesVolume
19Issue
3Pagination
259 - 269Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1352-7258eISSN
1470-3610Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2013, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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